so a lot of people have been using this
software called zoom recently mostly for
doing meetings and school lectures
remotely but there's some serious
privacy and security concerns with this
app first off I don't really understand
why everyone is flocking to an
application like this I hadn't even
heard of this application before I began
doing research for this video and it
turns out that they just did their IPO
about a year ago so they're kind of the
new kid on the block in terms of video
call applications and this is the only
reason that I can come up with for why
zoom blew up more than all the other
meeting applications during this time of
quarantine because that's just how the
normies are right they just like the
shiny new thing they just want it
because it's new and because everybody
else is using it classic herd mentality
but like most new software it's got a
lot of problems and it's actually had
problems since before zoom even did
their IPO which are being exacerbated
now because of the sudden influx of
normies that are using the platform so
the first major problem was discovered
in December of 2018 zooms application
had a vulnerability on all of the
desktop application so that's Mac OS
Windows and Linux that would allow
someone who isn't even a meeting
attendee to hijack the meeting and
become the host of it and when you're a
host of one of these meetings you have
some pretty spooky abilities like you
can remotely enable somebody's
microphone or webcam
you can remotely send keystrokes to
their computer and you can share their
screen this effectively means that zoom
was functioning as a remote access
trojan for anybody who knew how to
exploit this vulnerability then in July
of the next year there was a
vulnerability that allowed websites
access to the webcam on Mac books
because the Mac OS version of zoom
installed a web server that would take
requests that a standard browser
wouldn't and of course
zoom didn't give anybody
real warning or notice to the users who
installed it that a web server would
even be running on their Mac I mean even
if they did do you think most end users
that are using zoom because this is this
is something designed for normies so it
has to appeal to the lowest common
denominator do you even think if you put
in a checkbox during the installation
process like hey is it okay if soom runs
a web server on your computer they don't
know what that means they think that
it's like them having their own website
or like their own Facebook page or
something like that so it's it's just
total garbage and what's worse is that
this web server would remain left behind
even after zoom is uninstalled and the
web server could just be used to
reinstall zoom without any user
intervention so zoom went from just
being a remote access trojan in 2018 to
a persistent remote access trojan in
2019 and then in 2020 it's been revealed
that zooms privacy policy glows brighter
than the CIA and the ATF having a laser
tag match at night there's links to many
of the articles on this Harvard blog
which I'll give you guys a link in the
description to it along with all of my
other sources that I showed you here but
I got this information on it if you guys
want to read up for yourselves because
if I cover it all in this video it's
gonna be forever
but basically zoom shares its data that
it gathers from its users with several
major companies like Google and it gives
you no option to opt out of this data
share they don't even tell you that it's
going to be happening so things only get
worse from here on the Mac OS version of
zoom you don't even have to click for
zooms installation method to work and
this is because zooms method of
installation is pretty much the same
that malware uses so it copies it uses
what is it pre-installation scripts to
copy itself into the Applications folder
and then well it'll do that as long as
the current users in the admin
because if they're not then it won't
work but this is the same thing that
malware uses on the Mac OS for it to be
able to run and get past the the box
that you have to click on to install
software it's pretty much the same thing
as user account control I would show you
guys but I don't have a hackintosh
machine setup right now and it's not
necessarily a security flaw in and of
itself but like I said it's the same
installation method that's used by
malware and it just comes off as really
dishonest not quite as dishonest as
their enter end encryption though which
straight up doesn't work with any of
their meetings or any of their
communication at all because what zoom
actually uses is an encryption more
similar to transport layer security
where they encrypt the TCP and UDP
connections with AES kind of like you
would see in an HTTP communication when
you go to a secure website but this is
in no way end to end encryption because
zoom still has access to all of the
meetings all the audio all the pictures
and text anything that you ever sent
over that connection once it hits their
servers because they own the servers and
that's the whole point of end-to-end
encryption is that it prevents the
person who's running the platforms who's
running the servers from being able to
intercept the communication so they know
what they're doing when they tell you
that it's end-to-end when in reality it
isn't and currently there's a number of
lawsuits pending against zoom because of
all of these things some are in regards
to their privacy policy where they
shared and sold data about their users
to customers without anybody being able
to opt-out and not even telling you that
they're doing it and other lawsuits are
in regards to some of the more severe
security issues like the users being
able to access each other's emails
contact info and links it linked in
profiles without giving the user any
heads-up that is happening without even
giving them an option to consent to it
or not
that's why the US government has banned
the use of using zoom by government
officials because of all these security
flaws and because of its relationship
with China big surprise there that the
video called Trojan application is in
bed with China and it routes many of its
calls through Chinese servers even when
the calling participants are in the US
or in another country that's far away
from China and don't believe tsums
official explanation about this that it
was all just a mistake it was a you know
programming error it was an error with
the network engineers or whatever no
because it doesn't even make sense
geographically to route a call to China
if both of the calling participants are
in the USA like you're you're basically
adding unnecessary latency and
unnecessary overhead to the call it just
doesn't make sense unless you want to
send it through the Great Firewall so
that it can be inspected and stored for
later use by the Chinese government so
if you haven't figured it out by now you
shouldn't use zoom all right you signal
Yami Yami however you say it he'll even
Skype or Google Hangouts would be better
at this point because at least those
programs don't actively try to be
malware